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Comment When addiction the core business model... (Score 3, Insightful) 106

and the ROI on investing peanuts (just a few $100 million) to "lobby" congress is amazing, the choice is clear. More money to be made! Especially off the lower leg of the K economy to be populated by kids who are addicted to social media will fail to develope the ability to think critically or focus for more than 2 minutes.

Comment TACO Tuesday (Score 1) 184

will tell. Monday brings market reaction to various claims over made over the weekend. Then comes TACO Tuesday and we will learn the not part. That would be about the current claim of an agreement to negotiate an agreement.. or not. After nothing gets signed this coming Friday, we'll rinse and repeat for next week's TACO Tuesday. Dear Leader is clearly between a rock, (Iran dictating the terms) and a hard place (That any Dear Leader agreement will put the US on a weaker footing than the agreements that the Obama administration negotiated.).

Comment Caveat Emptor (Score 1) 65

About 2-4 sigma is about 3 sigma. Particle physics and astrophysics are littered with 3-sigma effects that turned out to be statistical fluctuations, errors, or not properly counting the number of rocks looked under, ie statistical penalties. Not saying these reports have any of these problems, but the 5 sigma bar to claim a discovery is there for good reason.

Comment Growing opposition (Score 5, Insightful) 51

Bernie Sanders has observed that these data centers aren’t at work trying to find ways to provide jobs for the working class, they are creating technology to replace paying people and increase the bottom line of the billionaire class. Whether you like Bernie or hate him, this observation on data centers resonates across party lines. And then there's the water issue.

Submission + - US Montly Jobs Report firing: lies, damn lies, and statistics (bls.gov)

cosmicl writes: The Bureau of Labor and statistics reported that the US added 73,000 jobs in July. Apparently President Trump did not like this number because he thought it was much too low. Solution? Fire Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "whom he accused, without evidence, of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political purposes.” " The report is detailed at the BLS website, Along with plenty of charts and other data.

Looks like commissioner McEntarfer (senate approval 86-8 Jan 2024) and team are following a methodology that the BLS repeats every month. As part of the process there is a revision for each month. Weather or not you like the method, it appears to be relatively transparent and repeated for each month. Hard to see how this firing is going to improve the situation beyond stroking the ego of the Dear Leader.

 

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